Animals - have you freedom?

Can you roam, free from harm?

Well then you are no animal

Down on the factory farm.

Not for you, the battery cage

Where hens can spread no wings

Bereft of feathers, burned off beaks

And greedy profit sings.

Not for you the broiler house

Where chickens in their dozens

Never see the light of day

They're cheap meat for our ovens.

Not for you the dry sow stall

There's pigs strapped to attention

But factory farming at the butchers

Never gets a mention.

Not for you the milking hall

Where cows, pumped full of hormones,

Are nothing more than milk machines

Are farmers now all morons?

What a wicked web we weave

We call it factory farming

Like all disasters humans cause

It too now sounds its warning

Swine fever, foot and mouth disease

The shout rings loud and shrill

Farmers are you listening

As consumers grow so ill?

It's time to turn the clock back

It's time for winds of change

Say "Goodbye factory farming

Welcome back free range!"

Ms R.Page,

Kingsmede, Blackpool.